3 Highly Liquid Dividend Stocks Hedge Funds Are Buying Up

Interested in stocks paying dividend income but don't know where to start? Here are some ideas on how to begin your search. We ran a screen on stocks paying dividend yields above 2% and sustainable payout ratios below 50% for those with strong company liquidity, with current ratios above 3. We then screened for those seeing significant net institutional purchases over the current quarter, indicating institutional investors such as hedge fund managers expect these names to outperform. ‪Interactive Chart: Press Play to compare changes in analyst ratings over the last two years for the stocks mentioned below. Analyst ratings sourced from Zacks Investment Research.‬ ‪ We also created a price-weighted index of the stocks mentioned below, and monitored the performance of the list relative to the S&P 500 index over the last month. To access a complete analysis of this list's recent performance, click... Read more